318 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
hairs; internally whitish cinereous; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, filiform, multiseptate, 180 x 2u; paraphyses 
filiform, branched near the apices, which are subclavate 
and brown. 
Vibrissea Margarita—White, “Sc rtt. Nat.” vol. ii 
p. 218; B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1477; Steven., 
“ Myco. Scot.,” p. 298; “ Grevillea,” vol. ii. p. 162; Phil, 
“Trans. Linn. Soe.,” ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 6, t. i f 10-16. 
On dead sticks of heather in a pool of water, at an 
altitude of 2200 feet. September and October. 
The stems are simple, varying from 2 lines to } an 
inch in height, springing from complicated threads, and 
covered with black-jointed hairs or fibres ; at the junction 
with the head the stem is less hairy and paler in-colour, 
internally it is solid and greyish-white. The head is 
flattened orbicular (sometimes concave in the middle), 
and of a beautiful orange-vermilion in eolour; the 
margin has a fringe of close appressed hairs of the same 
character as those on the stem; underneath the head is 
paler in colour at the junction with the stem. The 
species is readily distinguished from its ally, V. trun- 
-corum, by the hairy stems and differently coloured 
heads (Dr. Buchanan White, l. c.). 
Name—After Mrs. Buchanan White. 
Mor Shron, Braemar! (Dr. Buchanan White). 
3. Vibrissea Fergussoni. (B. and Br.) 
Stipes short, thickened upwards; cups plane, ex- 
ternally dark brown, granulose; hymenium plane or 
pulvinate, yellow ; asci elongated ; sporidia filiform, 220u; 
summits of the paraphyses globose. 
Patellaria Fergussoni—B. and Br.,“ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1490, t. 11. fig. 6; “Grevillea,” iii. p. 123. Vibrissea 
A cae “Trans. Linn. Soe,” ser. 2, vol. ii. 
p. 7. 
On Prunus Padus. 
Name—After the Rev. J. Fergusson. 
New Pitsligo, N.B. (Rev. J. Fergusson). 
